USE OF WESTERN AND INDIAN LITERATURE
Name: Ami SojitraSubject: Literary Theory And Critiism:20th
Western and Indian PoeticsEnroll no:PG15101034Email:
[email protected]: Department of English, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
USE OF ARCHETYPE IN WESTERN AND INDIAN LITERATURE:
WHAT IS ARCHETYPE:According to Northrop Frye: The term Archetype
denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action,
character-type, themes, and image in which are identifiable in a
wide variety of work of literature as well as in myths, dreams, and
even social ritualsNow lets discuss use of symbols in Indian and
Western literature
SYMBOLS IN LITERATURE:Seasons
ANIMAL:SOME ANIMALS STAND FOR COURAGE AND SOME FOR BAD SIGN LIKE
WOLVES:
Child of Shakuntala is very little though he live in Ashram he
was playing with cubs.
SYMBOL OF SERPENT: Serpent known for seduce someone to do a
wrong thing or cause of fallCharacter of
Satan(Paradise-Lost)Character of Manthara(Ramayana)
USE OF GARDEN AS ROMACE AND FOREST OR GRAVEYARD AS HORROR OR
SADShakuntala met Dushyant in garden which shows romance and
love
Hamlet appear in grave daggers scene which shows something
sad
USE OF MINERAL:SOME TEMPLE ,CITY STANDS FOR LOVE WHILE DESERT
STAND FOR TRAGEDYTaj-Mahal as the symbol of lovers.Desert is
symbolically described the tragedy or the sadness.
Hero:Duryodhana and Achilles
TALE WITH MORALITY:Greek stories in GreekIndian stories which
written in Sanskrit
THE OUTCAST:ONE HAVE TO LIVE FORCIBLY OR VOLUNTARY:Simon from
The lord of the flies Pandava(Mahabharat)
THE QUEST:SEARCH FOR KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLYPilgrim's
ProgressMirth of Savitri is an Indian example the quest
FEMME FATAL: WHO BRING CATASTROPHY AND DISASTROUS EVENTSEve has
try to go against of the god so she is consider as fall of human
being.Surpankha fall in love with Lakshmana and so she has proposed
him. This is something against the social rules so she have to
suffer.
USE OF BEAUTY OF WOMEN IS CAUSE OF DESTROYThe end of Lanka is
cause of Sita(Ramayana)The end of Troy is cause of Helen.(Helen of
sparta)
COLOUR:SOME COLORS STANDS FOR SOME SPECIAL CONTEXTGreen
color:White color:MuslimIndian national flag: greenery Christian:
MarriageHindu: DeathRed color:Romance and love Blood or
violence
TRIBAL AS NATIVE AND COLONISERRobinson Crusoe has started ruled
over FridayPandava has snatched identity of Eklavya on the name of
cast
CROSSED LOVERS:THEY BECOME VERY FAMOUS THOUGH THEY HAVE TRAGIC
END AND THEY CAN NEVER LIVE WITH EACH-OTHERRomeo-Juliet by
Shakespeare have tragic end of loversHeer-Ranjah by Waris Shah have
tragic end of lovers
SCHOLARLLY TALENT HAVE NO GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDRIESBharatmuni has
given NatyashastraAristotle has written Poetics
CONCLUSION By analyze all the characterization, animals, colors,
places, myth, and persons definitely they belong to different state
or different geographical location or different time than also the
archetype remain same.
REFERENCE:
Chellappan, Dr. K. "Archetype in indian literature." Triveni
journal India (n.d.).Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. W. Taylor,
1719.Golding, William. The lord of Flies. Faber and Faber,
1954.Hamlet. Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Perf. Kenneth Branagh.
1996.K.Chellappan, Dr. "Archetypes in indian literature."
(n.d.).Milton, John. Paradise lost. England: Samuel Simmons ,
1667.Shakespeare, William. Romeo-Juliet. England, 1597.Valmiki.
Ramayana. n.d.Vyas, Ved. Mahabharat. n.d.
Thank you.
